By contrast, consumers can't seem to get enough of Apple products or get them fast enough.

"Research in Motion has fallen quickly," said Jeff Kagan, a technology analyst in Atlanta. "The marketplace changed. Even after Apple introduced iPhone and Google introduced Android software, RIM management didn't believe they had a problem — that it was just a bump in the road.

"But now the reality is clear to everyone."

So are BlackBerry and its lone Farmington Hills retail store essentially finished as a consumer brand?

"That's the way I see it," said Harry Wang, director of mobile research for Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research firm.

From the article, "It's lonely at nation's only BlackBerry retail store" by Dale Buss.

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